Kristin P. Henry
 
Henry, Kristin P.
Henry, Kristin P.
United States of America
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Description: The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America
Born in Bakou in 1900, Alajálov began making literary illustrations as a teenager in Rostov-on-the-Don. Such anecdotal genre scenes would characterize his murals and magazine covers (beginning with work for The New Yorker in 1926) throughout his career. After carrying out public and royal commissions in Russia and Constantinople, he emigrated to New York in...
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.168-185
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00159.013